To:D. I. KURSKY[1]

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February 14, 1922

ComradeKursky:

Pleaselet me have, at the earliest possible date, an
official report about the powers the Workers’ and Peasants’
Inspection has, under the legislation in force, concerning
the inspection of private (non-state) enterprises.

Irecall It being repeatedly said that the W.P.I.’s
powers should not be restricted in any way as to any
enterprises whatsoever which do not fall into the category of
state enterprises.

[1]Thisletter to D. I. Kursky and the documents given below
(see this volume, Document 657), as well as Lenin’s markings
on the draft decision of the All-Russia C.E.C. on the People’s
Commissariat for Workers’ and Peasants’ Inspection and his
letter to J. V. Stalin on this question (see this volume, Document 
659), were written in view of the need to legislate more precisely
on the lights of the People’s Commissariat for Workers’ and
Peasants’ Inspection to control the activity of private enterprises.
This is due to a revival of private enterprises under the New
Economic Policy, a growth in the number of transactions between
state organisations and private lessees and various types of
abuses on that account,